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1 New Sheqel Hanukkah - Tunisian Lamp
| Issuer | Bank of Israel |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#191 |
| Obverse description | The State Emblem of Israel — a menorah flanked by two olive branches — occupies the central field. The face value '1 NEW SHEQEL' appears in Hebrew and English, with the dual dating '1988 / 5749' inscribed below the emblem. The trilingual legend 'ISRAEL / ישראל / اسرائيل' runs along the periphery, rendered in Hebrew, English, and Arabic script. |
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| Reverse script | Hebrew |
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Israel's annual Hanukkah coin series, launched in 1979, draws each year from a different diaspora tradition — specifically the lamp styles used by Jewish communities across the centuries of dispersion. The 1988 issue references the distinctive Tunisian oil lamp form associated with North African Jewry, whose communities in cities like Tunis and Djerba maintained unbroken Jewish presence stretching back to antiquity, predating the Arab conquest of the Maghreb by well over a millennium.
The .850 silver fineness is specific to this series and departs from the more common .925 standard — a deliberate cost consideration that kept the coins accessible as collector pieces without crossing into bullion territory.